1st Edition

A Frequency Dictionary of Multi-Word Expressions in British English Core Phrases and Exercises for Learners

By Vaclav Brezina, Dana Gablasova Copyright 2026
346 Pages 62 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

346 Pages 62 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

346 Pages 62 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

A Frequency Dictionary of Multi-Word Expressions in British English presents 5,000 of the most common multi-word expressions (MWEs) in contemporary British English, based on data from the British National Corpus 2014. Organised into ten functional categories – including idioms, phrasal verbs, collocations and academic or speech formulas – the dictionary provides detailed frequency, dispersion... Read more

Introduction

Frequency list

Thematic boxes

Alphabetical list

Tag combinations

Vocabulary exercises

Biography

Vaclav Brezina is Professor of Corpus Linguistics, Lancaster University, UK.

Dana Gablasova is Senior Lecturer, Lancaster University, UK.